In conjunction with the large-scale solo exhibition "DAVID BOWIE is," opening in Tokyo on January 8, 2017, a full-scale biographical biography of the rock star David Bowie, a man who loved Japan forever, will be published. One year has passed since the seemingly sudden news of David Bowie's death. In this book, Eiichi Yoshimura, who has written about David since the early 1990s for numerous publications, including Record Collectors magazine, and who also wrote the liner notes for Bowie's original albums from 2008's "Reality Tour" to his final album, "Black Star," in 2016, looks back on Bowie's life in a full-scale biographical biography. Why did David Bowie fall in love with Kyoto, wear Kansai Yamamoto's costumes, and appear in Nagisa Oshima's films? In addition to devoting a large portion of the book to David's continued love of Japan and his relationship with the country, the 400-page book covers his birth, his difficult debut, his achievements as an unconventional artist, 9/11 and his heart attack, his comeback and end. It is a work that touches on the close relationship between Japan and David, known only to those in the know.

[Book Information]
"David Bowie - The Starman Who Landed in Japan"
Author: Yoshimura Eiichi
Publisher: DU BOOKS
Paperback / 400 pages / 46 pages
Published: January 2017
Price: 2,200 yen